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Has anyone implemented user authentication system to a static site (think: #Eleventy / #Hugo / anything that ends up as a bunch of HTML pages)?

I'd love to restrict access to one of my semi-public sites to a specific group of friends and assign them their own user-password pairs.

I'd love something nicer than plain .htpasswd.

I'd love it to be as plain and simple as possible. Only a login form. No user sign up, no password reminders. Maybe magic links via email or even static user-password pairs stored in a secure manner on some external backend server.

Of course, I want to self-host it, I want to spend as little time as possible maintaining it, but I could pay a reasonable sum for a nice out-of-the-box solution.

Any suggestions?

(I know Authorizer - https://authorizer.dev/ - but I wonder if there's anything else I haven't discovered)